Wan to look out for!

From the director of Saw, Insidious and a personal favourite horror movie of mine, Dead Silence, comes The Conjuring. Based upon the story of the real-life paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, who were the first people to investigate the Amityville haunting, when they go to help the Perron family convinced they are being threatened by powerful entity.

What is intriguing me about this upcoming film is it doesn't look like your typical demonic film. Due to flops like The Last Exorcism, Apartment 143 and The Devil Inside, the mockumentary style has been labelled as a risky technique. With these types of films, it's sometimes hard to tell whether you're watching something that is trying to be ridiculously authentic or just a purely constructed movie, but James Wan seems to have gone at it from a different angle, which looks to be like it might save "mockumentary" altogether.

From The Conjuring's trailer, it appears that whilst the characters are filming the goings-on in the Perron household, the film itself is actually shooting them shooting, rather than using the footage that they would capture. This slightly alternative take on it could prove interesting and mean the audience still has the sense that this plot is based on true events but that doesn't come at an expense of the film's quality.

It's not unusual for directors to stick with actors they have had good performances from, so Patrick Wilson must have done Wan proud in Insidious as he's cast him as one of the leads in this film. Opposite him is Vera Farmiga, an actress I have loved since seeing her in Up In The Air, so I'm not worried about the acting talent at all. So often horrors use unknown actors in films to make them seem more real to the viewers, but having these two famous faces at the helm has changed the way audiences seem to be enhancing the buzz surrounding The Conjuring before it's even been released.

IMDb gives 'The Conjuring' an 8/10

Horror films are so hard to get right and arguably target the smallest audience compared to other film genres that a high rating on IMDb is hard to come by. Even scary films that I think are incredibly successful often only gain a 6/7 out of 10, so when researching The Conjuring on the well-known website, I became even more confident it was going to be a good watch.

Insidious: Chapter 2 out September the 13th. Come back and read my reviews of both shortly after their cinema release!